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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
4
Harrisburg dispatch reports Governor Stone orders Philadelphia City cavalry to Shenandoah to replace Carrisburg’s Governor’s Troop and aid militia in the anthracite strike area. General Gobin requested the move to protect life and property. no further troops planned unless disorder worsens.
In Desoto Missouri area residents hunt for 17 year old George believed murdered after a three day search. A horse trader, Charles Fulkerson, is held on murder charges while James Harrington and his 14 year old son are released on bonds. A separate report notes King Alfonso of Spain seeking marriage to a South American heiress to aid finances. A Northern Pacific hold up at Sand Point Idaho ends without success as robbers fail to blow the baggage car.
Disturbing scene as Rev. Sam Small, Georgia evangelist and temperance lecturer, collapsed on stage during a crowded Brattleboro rally. He spoke incoherently while the crowd emptied, and the presiding officer assisted him from the platform.
A Beaumont river region reports two unidentified corpses found near a drawbridge on the Neches artery over the weekend, with one later identified as Jim Broderick, an English bricklayer, presumed to have fallen from the bridge. A separate suicide is noted as Miss L M Voxel of Galveston strangled herself with a handkerchief in a Beaumont hotel while attempting to sell land.
In Kansas City the Culver Lumber Company and its Arkansas holdings were placed in receivers' hands on the request of Mary C. Culver and A. L. Culver. The firm owns timber lands near Oraighead Oklahoma and lumber yards in Kansas City Missouri, plus a sash and door factory in Kansas City Kansas. Assets are estimated at 650000, liabilities 250000, with Arkansas property valued over 500000.
The British steamer Peconic rammed the ocean liner Liguria in New York Narrows causing severe damage. Liguria carried over 17000 aboard and crew used starboard ballast to keep water out after a signaling misunderstanding.
Northern Pacific passenger train No. 7 struck the rear of a freight train in Anoka Minnesota. Fireman Harry Hutchins died from a broken neck after leaping to avoid the crash. Engineer David H Wilson suffered a fractured leg while clearing wreckage.
Washington advices say the Interior Department approved the Johnson and Kidder survey placing Chickasha about four and a half miles east of the current Oklahoma Chickasaw boundary. The move adds Chickasha, a key commercial and railroad hub, to Oklahoma. A protracted legal fight likely reaches the Supreme Court.
Albert Zurawski a laborer repairing the Globe building was crushed between an elevator and a window sill as bricks were taken to workers above. A large crowd witnessed the death in St. Louis with no chance of rescue.
The weekly Dun report notes fuel scarcity and idled anthracite mines raise coke and soft coal costs, with freight blockades and reduced motive power cutting deliveries. Yet August railway earnings rise, foreign pig iron imports grow, and despite export order losses, overall trade remains robust with favorable prices and high buyer demand.
A compiled list shows Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep along with wheat corn oats rye and other grains. Prices vary by city with cattle 3.00 to 8.25 dollars hogs 3.00 to 7.95 dollars and grains including No 2 wheat 64 to 74 cents per bushel and corn 59 to 60 cents.
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